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Man charged with murder of ex-girlfriend in Fukuoka

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Yet another murder after multiple reports to the police about repeated stalking, harassment, victimization. The current structure is obviously not providing adequate protection.

Any excellent ideas that not only protect those who feel threatened but also protect the liberty of the accused? (

I don’t have any data, but I would assume that most police warnings are heeded and lead to de-escalation. Perhaps we could take action against those accused of multiple evidence-supported violations? But would that have saved this woman or the recently murdered Bishop family in Hanno? Probably not.

Frustrated.

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Police fail

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Kawano had consulted with police multiple times since last October, claiming she was accosted and followed by Terauchi after breaking up with him.

This is the core of the problem. Police need to talk a STRONGER approach towards stalking reports. Be it male stalking or female stalking of ANY KIND. Because men get stalked too. I speak from experience. My case was kinda like this :

https://youtu.be/ehbNJoxhkG8

.....except for.....you know....the outcome.

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Kawano had consulted with police multiple times since last October, claiming she was accosted and followed by Terauchi after breaking up with him.

The police issued a warning against him the same month and banned him from approaching her based on the stalker regulation law the following month

just google this scum’s name and you’ll see a couple of pictures of him.

they say never judge a book by its cover, but the joker looked like a nut. Not in a good way at all.

the police definitely should’ve done more than just give a cute little warning, in fact I wouldn’t doubt if they somehow tried to blame the woman for the stalking.

either way, there’s no way to bring the woman back, but we still have to deal with that degenerate living in our society?

some people just want to see the world burn

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The anti-stalking laws aren’t working. It’s time to step them up a notch and put these creeps in prison until they cool off. In the twenty odd years I lived in Japan every young girl I met through teaching English (20-40 y/o) had stories of stalking and violence from ex-boyfriends. Every one of them! Any harassment and/or threats should be met with at least six months in jail. Perhaps that will be enough to make these creeps grow up and get over it. If they reoffend it should be a year and keep doubling for every further offense. Giving them a police warning does nothing!

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The right to bear arms?

But that “right” would swing both ways, wouldn’t it? Perhaps giving likely criminals more powerful weapons is not an excellent idea.

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Any harassment and/or threats should be met with at least six months in jail. If they reoffend it should be a year and keep doubling for every further offense.

I think you just put half the nation in prison, Lindsay!

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Sad story...

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fatrainfallingintheforestToday  12:35 pm JST

...so, in answer to your question, local, dedicated 'stalker protection squads' which increase surveillance and monitoring of stalking victims and suspects is the only thing I can think of.

Although this sounds liek a good idea it would be the perfect job for a......... perverted stalker!

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Japan needs to start using ankle tags like other countries for stuff like this . It’s happened enough times and police defending themselves saying “we told him to stop sternly” which means nothing that further measures should be taken.

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